The annual Fall for the Book festival aims to provide a writer for every reader, to offer readers opportunities to connect with authors and literature in new and vibrant ways. Fall for the Book partners with Bards Alley to provide books for sale on-site at their events, small and large.

Multiple author events span a week this year, including several featured authors and the New American Voices Award, an award created by FFtB and the Institute for Immigration Research to recognize recently published works that illuminate the complexity of the human experience as told by immigrants, whose work is historically underrepresented in writing and publishing (previous winners include Rachel Heng, Sindya Bhanoo, and Hernan Diaz). Find the entire schedule this year on Fall for the Book's website at fallforthebook.org.

FEATURED EVENTS:
Tuesday, October 15 @ 7pm: The Beck Environmental Lecture presents Chelsea Henderson at George Mason University for her book Glacial: The Inside Story of Climate Politics, which examines the reasons why it took almost sixty years for the U.S. government to pass significant climate change legislation, and urges our elected officials to act in the face of the climate crisis. Copies of Glacial will be available for purchase courtesy of Bards Alley, and Chelsea will be signing books after the discussion.

Wednesday, October 16 @ 7pm: A conversation with Bonnie Garmus at George Mason University for her bestselling book Lessons in Chemistry about chemist, mother, and beloved cooking star Elizabeth Zott, who ignites a revolution one meal at a time. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and more, Lessons in Chemistry has taken the world by storm in print and on television. The standard and special editions of Lessons in Chemistry will be available for purchase courtesy of Bards Alley, and Bonnie will be signing books after the conversation.

Friday, October 18 @ 7:30pm: A conversation with Silvia Moreno-Garcia at the Stacy C. Sherwood Center closes the festival with her most recent novel The Seventh Veil of Salome, an historical epic about the drama on and off the screen for a 1950s Hollywood actress who wins the role of a lifetime. Moreno-Garcia is also the author of Mexican Gothic, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, and many other books. Copies of The Seventh Veil of Salome will be available for purchase courtesy of Bards Alley, as well as limited copies of Moreno-Garcia's backlist titles. To guarantee your purchase of a backlist title, please call Bards Alley and pre-purchase a title ahead of time.